-Chapter 491: The Cossack Civil War (Part II)-
When the Grizzly 1 tank approached the trenches, many Russian soldiers who had been brainwashed by the red propaganda completely disregarded their personal safety, and they rushed directly to the tank with Molotov cocktails or anti-tank grenades, and died with the tank without hesitation.
The Russian army's combat style of not being afraid of death made the Cossack army suffer a big loss, despite the advantage in weapons, the Cossack army still spent a full five days to advance only 20 kilometers, which is still at a heavy price, the Grizzly 1 tank alone was reimbursed as many as 137 vehicles, and the casualties of the soldiers reached more than 30,000, of course, the casualties of the Russian soldiers were even greater, more than 100,000.
After receiving the casualty report from the front, Alexander III realized that Fang Xiaoyu did not agree to attack Russia, and told him to encroach slowly and not in a hurry, he never thought that under the brainwashing of the Russian government, these soldiers would be so crazy.
However, the madness of the Russian soldiers was not over, and upon learning that the Cossack Empire had begun to attack, the Russian High Command immediately ordered the troops to counterattack and regain the lost territory as soon as possible. Under the strict orders of the superiors, under the cover of 300 aircraft and 500 artillery pieces of various types, the Russian army of one million troops attacked on all fronts, and in order to increase the assault capability, all 150 M2 combat vehicles in the hands of the Russian army also appeared.
These tanks in the hands of the Russian army are the latest products of the Boston Empire, the M2 tank weighs 17.23 tons, has a crew of six, including the commander, the driver and four machine gunners, and is armed with a 37 mm long-barreled cannon and eight 7.7 mm machine guns. The M2 tank, which had an off-road speed of 28 kilometers per hour, modeled after the tactics of the Chinese Empire, covered a large number of infantry to charge the positions of the Cossack Empire.
The Cossack army was not equipped with a large number of bazookas like the Chinese Empire, but they had a 57-mm anti-tank gun specially designed for them by the Chinese Consortium, such a large-caliber anti-tank gun was very powerful, and there was no suspense about the weak front armor of the M2 tank, not to mention that they also used armor-piercing shells specially designed for them by the Chinese Consortium.
The new armor-piercing projectile equipped with this Cossack army is not like the traditional armor-piercing bullet in the western continent now, it needs to rely on a solid alloy warhead to achieve the purpose of armor-piercing, and the armor-piercing projectile uses the 'energy gathering effect', and its warhead is an inverted cone-shaped copper cover, with the cone center facing inward and the cone mouth facing outward.
After the warhead is detonated, the high-temperature and high-pressure gunpowder gas melts the copper cover instantly, forming a high-temperature and high-speed metal jet that erupts forward, and the principle of the armor-piercing bullet is to use the high temperature and pressure of this metal jet to cauterize the armor steel. After burning through, the hot melt splashes into the car, which can detonate ammunition or fuel, which can also pose a great threat to the occupants of the car. This kind of shell not only has a better armor-piercing effect, but also has a great damage to the inside of the vehicle, as long as the M2 tank is pierced by this shell, not only does it have no repair value, but also the personnel are basically not spared.
One after another, the M2 vehicles are hit, and once they are hit by armor-piercing shells, the fuel and ammunition inside these vehicles that are not specially protected will be detonated, so the turrets of these vehicles will soon turn the entire vehicle into a brilliant firework in a secondary explosion. Such a fierce battle could not shake the hearts of those Russian soldiers, who still charged forward with their rifles in hand.
The Russian tanks and soldiers were getting closer and closer, when there was a loud rumble in the Cossack position, and a large number of Grizzly Bear 1 tanks waiting in the rear finally arrived. Although the Grizzly 1 tank is only 22 tons, which is not much larger than the M2, the more powerful engine, more reasonable configuration and thicker armor make the combat effectiveness of the two tanks no longer on the same level.
In the face of the Grizzly Bear, the M2 is powerless against the front armor of the Grizzly 1, regardless of whether it uses a 37mm tank gun or as many as eight machine guns, while the Grizzly 1 can not only easily destroy the M2 tank, but even push the M2 back after the two vehicles collide together.
Seeing the loss of their own tanks, a large number of Russian soldiers once again frantically rushed forward with anti-tank grenades, which caused a lot of trouble to the machine gunners on the Grizzly Tank, but with the help of the Cossack soldiers who rushed up later, the tank troops quickly stabilized their positions.
The rifles in the hands of the Russian soldiers were seized from warehouses in various places, and the Type 91 rifles originally supported by the Chinese Empire to the Cossack Empire. They still tried to get close to each other in hand-to-hand combat, as they did during the Great War of the World, with bayonets on their rifles.
But the Cossack soldiers did not give them such an opportunity, and with semi-automatic rifles in their hands, they taught their compatriots on the opposite side what the modern way of warfare was. Semi-automatic rifles save the action of pulling the bolt during shooting, which makes the rifle rate of fire very high, and usually the Cossack army only needs a squad of fighters armed with semi-automatic rifles to suppress those fighters of the Russian army who use Type 91 rifles in a company. With such a high rate of fire, the Cossack soldiers did not intend to use the bayonets on their guns at all, they just relied on the semi-automatic rifles in their hands and mercilessly shot the Russian soldiers on the opposite side.
Although the Russian soldiers were not afraid of death and charged forward with rifles, but the flesh and blood could not block the metal bullets after all, under the intensive fire of the Cossack army, the Russian soldiers suffered a large number of casualties, but they still persisted in continuing to attack, and the soldiers on both sides finally got together after the last day. The Russian soldiers were extremely strong in their desperate fighting spirit, but the casualties were already too large, and under the absolute disadvantage in numbers, the equally brave Cossack soldiers began to gradually gain the advantage.
The infantry fought in favor of the Cossacks, and the chariot melee was even more one-sided. The 150 M2 tanks of the Russian army have already lost a lot of losses, and they have been wiped out by the 57-mm anti-tank guns of the Cossack Army, and they have encountered nearly 400 Grizzly 1 tanks, and the battle situation can be imagined.
After completely eliminating the Russian tank units, these Cossack Army Grizzly 1 tanks drove at full speed and rushed directly into the Russian positions, and the artillery of the tanks kept attacking machine gun fire points or small-caliber artillery positions, and the Russian soldiers who rushed up with the frantic strafing of the machine guns, coupled with the brutal crushing of the tank tracks, turned the Russian artillery positions only five kilometers away from the forward positions upside down.